Ukrainian refugees face dwindling job opportunities in UK due to visa problems and a crisis in the labor market, the Bloomberg agency reported.
„Everything has changed, we are no longer in the news,” refugee Diana Kocheva, who heads a community of displaced Ukrainian technical workers based in London, told the agency. She also noted that the desire to help Ukrainians is waning. According to her, employers prefer to find employees with a more stable visa or position.
Gideon Maltz, executive director of the Tent Partnership for Refugees, a charity that coordinates private companies' aid to refugees, told Bloomberg that managers often refuse to hire refugees, even when they apply, because they doubt the qualifications them.
According to the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics, cited by the agency, about 58% of Ukrainian refugees work in the United Kingdom in a field different from that in which they worked in Ukraine.
Bloomberg also noted the rising unemployment rate in the UK, which now stands at 4.3% and is the highest since the summer of 2023. According to the agency, competition is increasing amid the labor market crisis, which also makes it difficult for Ukrainian refugees to find work.